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Shakespeare's Diaries on DVD

Doctor Crispin Shakespeare is bored by his life in Stratford Upon Avon, but then he is suddenly called to the aid of an injured construction worker. As he descends into an abandoned cellar to rescue his patient, he stumbles across the lost diaries of his namesake, William Shakespeare, who lived in Stratford some four hundred years ago. All the world's media descend upon the town, and tension builds as local people wait to hear the lost secrets of the Bard. It is a story that soon attracts the interest of the American art thief Arthur Kranz. Surprised by his celebrity status, Crispin decides to use it to promote his own amateur stage show and heads off to the Fringe Comedy Festival in Edinburgh, accompanied by the glamorous American actress Lucy Bernstein. But Arthur Kranz is hot on his heels and determined to obtain the diaries for himself

Doctor Crispin Shakespeare is bored by his life in Stratford Upon Avon, but then he is suddenly called to the aid of an injured construction worker. As he descends into an abandoned cellar to rescue his patient, he stumbles across the lost diaries of his namesake, William Shakespeare, who lived in Stratford some four hundred years ago. All the world's media descend upon the town, and tension builds as local people wait to hear the lost secrets of the Bard. It is a story that soon attracts the interest of the American art thief Arthur Kranz. Surprised by his celebrity status, Crispin decides to use it to promote his own amateur stage show and heads off to the Fringe Comedy Festival in Edinburgh, accompanied by the glamorous American actress Lucy Bernstein. But Arthur Kranz is hot on his heels and determined to obtain the diaries for himself